Bill Davenport

Coulson Tough brought the first sculpture to The Woodlands in 1974, "The Family" by Charles Pebworth along Woodlands Parkway. Coulson launched a sculpture acquisition program, using money from The Woodlands’…

Mayor Joe Adame and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi officials have been discussing the possibility of moving the college’s master’s of fine arts program downtown to relive crowding on its island…

1300 boxes of photos from the storied Magnum photo agency are now avaliable for public perusal and research at the University of Texas’ Harry Ransom center in Austin. The 210,00…

A 10-foot bronze vaquero is taking shape, ready for placement on a plinth at North Main Street and Central Avenue in Fort Worth. "Co-sculpted" by Detroit artist David Newton and…

The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University has teamed up with the Prado Museum in Madridin a three-year deal that will bring renowned pieces of the Prado’s collection to Dallas,…

In its continuing drive for cross-disciplinariness, the university of Houston has announced a new "creative work" minor that combines fine arts with cultural studies such as history or philosophy.  John…

Vince Hannemann’s Cathedral of Junk in South Austin is closing, a victim of newly-enforced city codes. According to Hannemann, the effort to refashion the popular 60-ton trash heap into a…

AirStation, a multi-part temporary installation in the old gas station across from the Station Museum in Houston, dramatizes environmental degradation by creating a vision of a self-contained, one room biospere;…

The Center for Law and Intellectual Property at Texas Wesleyan is hosting its second annual art law colloquium from 10am-3:30pm on June 19 at the law school in downtown Fort…

"Tommy," a bronze boy seated on a bronze bench, reading, was stolen last Thursday night from it’s popular location outside the Allen Public Library. The statue, which cost friends of…

Go ahead, kick the man when he’s down: Thomas Kinkade, "the painter of light" whose empire of schlock has been kicking us in the eye for years, was arrested for…

It worked: in the Frisco, TX City Council run-off race, John Keating beat incumbent Jim Joyner. Keating supported a Tea Party petition to reconsider funding for the Collin County Arts…

The Guggenheim museum is sponsoring a fishing expedition on YouTube- broadcasting an open call for complete video works ten minutes or less from everyone everywhere. Starting yesterday, YouTube Play, the…

Conny Martin, pioneer artist of Lubbock died on June 6 at age 84. Born in Lubbock in 1925, Martin began painting  on shirt cardboards after In 1951 she was a…

Steven Evans, formerly managing director of Dia: Beacon in upstate New York is the new executive director of the Linda Pace Foundation in San Antonio. Evans, in charge if Dia’s…

Staten Island artist Scott LoBaido will begin painting the world’s largest American flag on the 3.5 acre roof of the Lamons Gasket company’s manufacturing facility at 7300 Airport Blvd., Houston…

Saturday, June 26 at 4pm is the deadline for the Art League Houston’s open call for exhibtion proposals for its 2011-2012 season. Artists and curators  and curator-artists of all stripes…

The Texas Art Asylum, at 1230 Houston Ave., Houston is now open. Self-descibed as a "part craft store, part thrift store, part salvage yard, part antique store" the new shop…

Conceptual painter Sigmar Polke died Thursday in Cologne, Germany, of complications from cancer. He was 69. According to the NY Times Roberta Smith, Polke’s "main achievement was to be an…

Houston Center for Photography has added three new staff members: Ms. Juliana Forero is HCP’s new Assistant Director for Education, Mr. Zach Gresham is Workshop Coordinator, and Ms. Alex Moore…